Hans-Albrecht Herzner

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Hans-Albrecht Herzner (born February 6, 1907 in Potsdam ; † September 3, 1942 in Hohenlychen ) was a German officer in the Abwehr (intelligence service) . A week before the attack on Poland began , he was in charge of the Wehrmacht's first commando operation . For Susanne Meinl he is a central figure in the national-conservative resistance against Adolf Hitler .

Life

Herzner's parents were the architect Richard Herzner and his wife Elisabeth. Interrupted by the First World War , Herzner attended the Reform Realgymnasium in Berlin-Zehlendorf from 1913 to 1927 . After graduating from high school, he studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin from the summer semester of 1927 . In 1928 he became active in the Corps Borussia Berlin . In 1938 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In the same year he received the ribbon of the Corps Frankonia Prague , whose old gentlemen's association was based in Berlin after the suspension of the Prague Seniors' Convents Association .

Herzner was a reserve officer in Infantry Regiment 9 (Wehrmacht) . As a civilian , he was a research associate at the Army High Command from August 1, 1938 to October 1, 1938 . Then he came to the Abwehrstelle at the General Command VII Army Corps in Breslau . As a lieutenant in the reserve he served (like Hans-Wolfram Knaak ) in the Bau-Lehr-Regiment e.g. V. 800, from which the Brandenburg (special unit) emerged . Before the attack on Poland began , he was supposed to set up a command of Sudeten Germans and clear the railway tunnel at the Jablunka Pass for the 7th Army (Wehrmacht) . So he traveled on August 24, 1938 with a forged passport as a businessman Dr. Heinrich Herzog went to Pressburg to meet five troops of agents in order to take the Mosty train station in a coup, which was also successful. The command failed because of the defenders of the tunnel. The tunnel could be held and the German attackers were driven away. Herzner received no support from the Wehrmacht because Hitler had postponed the start of the war at the last minute. Wilhelm Canaris nevertheless suggested Herzner and others for the Iron Cross 2nd class. Wilhelm Keitel refused the award because the war had not yet started. Herzner received the EK later.

In 1940/41, Herzner was a first lieutenant in the Legion of Ukrainian Nationalists and was in command of the nightingale battalion . After a gunshot wound to the back, he was taken to the Hohenlychen SS hospital .

Herzner was posthumously promoted to captain and was given a grave of honor in Honorary Cemetery No. 9 of the New Cemetery in Potsdam . The grave site is part of the soldiers' graves from the First and Second World Wars. It is maintained by the cemeteries division of the Potsdam city ​​administration .

Awards

Herzner's grave

Works

  • Socialism and the Labor Movement of Poles in the 19th Century . Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe, Priebatsch Buchhandlung Verlag , Breslau 1939. Beginning . (Reprint of the yearbooks at Johnson Reprint Corporation New York).

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Müller, 2006
  2. ↑ a b The Enigma Bulletin (1998)
  3. ↑ P. Hoffmann, 1983
  4. ^ S. Meinl: National Socialists against Hitler . Siedler, 2000 ( google.de ).
  5. ↑ a b c d Knapp: Hans-Albrecht Herzner . Corps newspaper of Frankonia-Prague, annual edition 2003, pp. 20–24
  6. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 15/354; 42/119
  7. ^ Message from Gunther Butzmann, Potsdam cemetery administration
  8. ↑ Conference of the International Intelligence History Study Group (Hamburg 1996) ( Memento from September 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Herzner, Hans-Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and defense officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1942
Place of death Hohenlychen